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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Fulton J. Sheen

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Devil Forget Head Life Philosophy Rule Start
If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Believe Deep End Live Yourself
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Day Morning Smile Suicide
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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Close Example Judgement Live Spirit
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Civilization Command Dangerous Learning Obedience Right
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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Badness Capital Evil Goodness Spoil
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Day Evil God Negative Positive Time
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Devil Himself Purity Temptation
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Angel Big Guide Protection Thinking World Yourself
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Difficult Exercise God Prayer Religious Time Willing
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Criticism Ourselves Photograph Thinking Wall
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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God Love Ourselves Religious Value
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Tax
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Command Difficult God Religious Scripture Soul

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

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